Ida Simons

[1] Her father Moritz Rosenheimer was a German-born commercial agent, while her mother, Constance Fight, was a Dutchwoman born in England, and who preferred to speak English with the family.

[3] Along with her family, she was sent to Westerbork transit camp, where she played for the inmates in a series of undercover performances.

[2] In 1945, Heinrich Himmler swapped several hundred interned Jewish people for munitions.

She published a collection of poems Wrange oogst in 1946, and short stories Slijk en sterren in 1956 under the name of Clara Serena van Berchem.

[2] In 1959, under the name Ida Simons, she published Een dwaze maagd (A Foolish Virgin), a semi-autobiographical novel, which became a bestseller.